A new year and unlike everyone else I’m not going to bore you with tips about losing weight.

Two young boys who fell from an inflatable bouncy house as it was swept skyward by gusty winds in upstate New York remained hospitalised in stable condition, one in a medically induced coma with a head injury, according to police.

THERE are few wines more iconic than New Zealand’s Cloudy Bay which was founded in 1985 and whose intense pungent Sauvignon Blanc became a benchmark for the varietal in that country.

ALONG with spices such as vanilla, coffee is catnip for humans, a sort of mildly psychoactive cup that cheers.

THERE are absolutely cracking wines out there in all sorts of retailers — in the big supermarkets and wine specialists alike.